The Desperate People (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Farley Mowat
- First Published: 1959
- Type of Work: Nonfiction
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, Native Americans or American Indians, Death or dying, Canada or Canadians, Starvation, Survival
- Locales: Canada
The Desperate People describes the “virtual extinction” between 1952 and 1959 of the beleaguered Ihalmiuts in the inland plains known as the Barrengrounds. An appendix identifies by name all the Ihalmiut who were living in 1946 and either tells where they were living in 1958 or explains what happened to them. Of the 111 individuals, only 64 were known to be alive twelve years later, many of them at Rankin Inlet on the shore of Hudson Bay. Diphtheria was the commonest cause of death.
Due west of Hudson Bay, in the Canadian District of Keewatin, lies the Land of the...
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